Part of the "Dinnertime Collection"
A thick fog covered
Grim Town like warm wet duvet and under
it ten thousand souls snored the night through making the fog rise and fall
with each breath.... except Fork who was pacing.
".......497,498,499,500,
stop turn 90degrees and 1,2,3,4........."
Fork had been pacing
for a long time around the square he had made and every so often would mutter
to himself, for everyone else was asleep " .....I knew it would happen...I
knew it would happen....but did I stop...No.... just carried on and did it...I
am going to be in so much trouble....I knew it would happen so why did I do
it....." and so it went on as did the pacing.
Hour turned upon
hour and still Fork paced, slowly making himself a track in the grass by the
constant passing of his feet. Still he muttered.
A soft voice crept
out of the shadows and held Forks attention like a warm cuddle
"Hello Fork,
long time no see, watcha doin' ?"
"Pepper !! you
scared the crap outta me, what are YOU doing out?"
"Just looking
around, moochin', You?"
"Walking,
trying to get up the courage to go home"
"Why watcha
done Huh, somethin' bad?"
"Yup, real bad,
gonna suffer for it this time"
"Watcha do ?
Watcha do? Watcha DO ? HUH HUH HUH?"
"Don't want to
say, it's real bad"
"Ah go on Fork,
you can tell MEEEE, I'm your best mate"
"Are you ?
Since when?"
"Uh since you
had that operation? Not remember that I suppose, all the times I cleaned your
wounds and kept it clean coz you were a lazy SOB and saved you from the
'Fection. NO suppose I'm not a friend if you don't remember that"
"I'm sorry
Pepper of course I remember those bad days, when only you would come and see me
becoz I stank so bad. It's just this bad thing I have done sort of getting me
worried that it's gonna be the end of me."
"So What did
you do that is soooooo bad? Kill someone?"
"Sort of"
"Waddya mean
sort of ? Ya can't sort of kill someone, you either do or you don't"
"I did"
"What kill
someone?"
"Yes"
"Who?"
"Bubba"
"Bubba ? That
dumb ass? How? Why? Thought you were good friends?"
"We are, well
were 'till I killed him"
"Come on Fork,
let's have the whole story"
"We were only
playing, like you do"
"OK"
"We were
playing chase, done it hundreds of times. I chase him ..tag.. then he chases me
..tag… and so on 'till we got bored"
"Yeah and
so...How?"
"OK....He
tagged me so I chased him and was just going to tag him when he stopped
suddenly, and I realised I couldn't stop in time, couldn't stop tagging him and
It was then I bit his head off. Should've nipped his ass as usual but he turned
around and it was done. Now they're gonna kill me for it I just know it"
"Don't be
stupid Bubba was only a freakin Budgie, so what's it matter?"
"They loved him
so much"
"Oh and they
don't love you?"
"Not now I've
got Bubbas' head inside me"
"You'll be
okay, take it from me mate, stay away for a few days before you go home and
they will be so glad to see you. Probably think you went after whoever ate
Bubba"
"Hmmm you know,
that could be a good plan, can I stay at yours for a couple of days?"
"Sure mate,
what friends are for, now........."
And with the fog
drifting into the deepest shadows the two cats walked off into the gloom happy
with their plan and looking forward to breakfast.
